Books

FIRST EDITION, pp. [xii], 186, crown 8vo, original bright blue cloth, facsimile of the author's signature stamped in gilt to upper board, the backstrip lettered in gilt, red and black, contemporary ownership inscription of Tad Mosel to initial blank (see below), dustjacket lightly toned overall with a couple of darker patches, very faint red line to author portrait on rear panel, very good. The copy of Vonnegut's contemporary, playwright Tad Mosel.

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1969.